IMC 2004: Sessions
Session 520: Cultural Conflict in English Civic Drama, Then and Now
Tuesday 13 July 2004, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society |
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| Organiser: | Pamela M. King, Department of English, St Martin's College, Lancaster |
| Moderator/Chair: | Meg Twycross, Department of English & Creative Writing, Lancaster University |
| Paper 520-a | The York Mystery Play Revivals: Cultural Clash and Cultural Challenge (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Lay Piety, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Performance Arts - Drama |
| Paper 520-b | Theology versus the Law: Was there a Conflict? (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Lay Piety, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Performance Arts - Drama |
| Paper 520-c | The York Plays in Performance: Civitas versus Templum (Language: English) Index terms: Performance Arts - Drama |
| Abstract | This session will look at English Mystery Plays as historically contested cultural territory, from the tensions between lay and clerical interests in the 15th and 16th centuries which they evidence, through the controversies surrounding their revival for the 1951 Festival of Britain, to the debate about what is the appropriate format for the continuation of the York Festival currently providing press interest locally and nationally |